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Burton Rascoe has always been a bright boy. As an urchin in Kentucky, a lad in Oklahoma, a stripling in Chicago, a young man in Manhattan he showed the same kind of promise as the Napoleonic private with a marshal's baton in his knapsack. On the U. S. literary front of 15 years ago, if they wanted a man to encourage the van or to harass the foe from the rear, Burton Rascoe was just the man. This week, when he published his long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide...
...curly-haired urchin drops his threepenny Coronation mug. It breaks, he sobs for his mother. Kind bystanders give him much more than three pennies. Sniveling he moves away, into another street to repeat the racket...
Being the well-worn tale of the urchin and her none-too-scrupulous grandfather who soon lie on a bed of roses through the darling simile and bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan...
...Democrats had apparently monopolized the streets near the railroad station to give the GOP Nominee the cold stare. Reception grew warmer as the procession reached the business section. Opposite the Nominee's hotel a small boy appeared carrying a Roosevelt placard. Several spectators grabbed for it. The urchin slipped behind a policeman, jeered: "It's a free country...
...Pincus' newest trick was a modification of the late (1859-1924) Jacques Loeb's method of producing fatherless sea urchins by soaking sea urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed...